TT’s weekly newsletter, with resources on supporting student voter registration remotely, National Hispanic Heritage Month and more. 

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September 8, 2020
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** Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month With Your Students
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September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month! Take the time to ensure that you are uplifting a diverse range of Hispanic and Latinx identities, cultures and histories—including those that are intersectional. To help you celebrate and honor Hispanic Heritage Month with your students, we’ve compiled some of our favorite resources ([link removed]) for bringing Latinx voices to the classroom.
Uplifting the Student Vote // Jey Ehrenhalt ([link removed])

All Students Need Anti-racism Education // Christina Torres ([link removed])

Voter Registration in a Time of Pandemic and Protests // Teaching Tolerance Staff ([link removed])
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How to Support Student Voter Registration Remotely
We know the continuation of distance learning and ongoing social distancing regulations in most states and localities have added obstacles to student voter registration drives. But they’re not impossible. These suggestions ([link removed]) can help you support future voters while adhering to safety and social distancing guidelines related to COVID-19.
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** Suicide Prevention Week: We Can’t Lose Another Child
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This week is National Suicide Prevention Week. In this article ([link removed]) , TT Staff Writer Coshandra Dillard offers tips to help you normalize conversations about mental health and proactively protect your students. It’s never too early to talk about the issues that affect children emotionally, mentally and physically—including how circumstantial influences like bullying can impact mental health.
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** Register for Our Live Q&A With the Filmmakers of Bibi
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Teaching Tolerance’s new streaming classroom film, Bibi ([link removed]) , tells the story of a Latinx father and son and sparks discussions about identity, culture, family and belonging. Register today ([link removed]) for a live Q&A panel with the filmmakers and cast at
3:30 p.m. CT on September 21. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about Bibi and its intersectional lessons!
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** Podcast Episode: A Playlist for the Movement
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Music chronicles the history of the civil rights struggle: The events, tactics and emotions of the movement are documented in songs of the era, from The Freedom Singers to Sam Cooke. Check out the latest episode ([link removed]) of our
Teaching Hard History podcast, in which historian Charles L. Hughes explains how your students can use music for both historical insight and evidence in the classroom.


** Check Out What We’re Reading
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“I saw many technologies used in unequal ways. And I observed teachers responding differently to students’ digital skills depending on the race or ethnicity and economic status of most of their students.” — PBS NewsHour ([link removed])

“The United States must reckon with the fact that Latinos are essential to its survival and to its splendor, and have been for generations. We Latinos need to know it, too.” — The New York Times ([link removed])

“During a single school year, 2018-2019, the number of youth arrests at school increased 8 percent even though communities around the schools saw a 12 percent decline in the number of youths arrested, the report said. And police officers arrested elementary-age kids 345 times, including an arrest of a 5-year-old and five arrests of 6-year-olds in that same year.” — The Washington Post ([link removed])
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